Bestselling Novelist China Mieville – On Grief, Ghosts, and Empire
The central figure of the New Weird, an unofficial movement fusing science fiction, fantasy, and horror with a literary sensibility, China Mieville is equally known for his award-winning, internationa...
18 Sep 54min
Bestselling Mythologist Amy Jeffs – The Life of King Arthur
A scholar, author, artist, and musician, Amy Jeffs is a polymath of British mythology, bringing the greatest stories of the Middle Ages to life in extraordinary books including Storyland, Wild, and Ol...
16 Sep 35min
Time Woman of the Year Zahra Joya — The Vanishing Girl of Kabul
Zahra Joya grew up under the first Taliban regime, when girls were banned from school. For years she dressed as a boy to access the basic rights denied to her. She became a journalist in Kabul, and fo...
14 Sep 49min
Kimon de Greef — A Trip into the Psychedelic Underworld
When Kimon de Greef began an investigation into the smuggling of white sage, a Californian herb popular in the wellness movement, he could not have foreseen that the story would lead him into the dark...
8 Sep 41min
Jo Marchant – The Science and Mystery of the Present Moment
What if the present moment – the ‘now’– isn’t just a tick of the clock? We feel that the present is everything; all we can know, yet physics finds no universal 'now'. So where does that leave us – and...
7 Sep 1h 1min
Aziz Abu Sarah and Maoz Inon – The Future is Peace
“People have lost hope that peace is possible. Talking about peace seems too vulnerable, too naïve, too dangerous. We have resigned ourselves to this unending war as the only way forward. But we have ...
1 Sep 1h 2min
Naomi Klein - The Mirror World of Conspiracists and the Far-Right (Summer Repeat)
As conspiracy theories, political polarisation and the blurred boundaries between truth and misinformation continue to shape our public life, Naomi Klein's prize-winning book Doppleganger (2023) feels...
28 Aug 1h 2min
Yuval Noah Harari – Making Sense of a World in Crisis (Summer Repeat)
In an age of uncertainty, renowned historian Yuval Noah Harari joins Ritula Shah to make sense of a world in crisis and help us better understand the perils we face. In this episode of the podcast, b...
25 Aug 1h 15min
